The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh· 2018Q1· Review
Cognitive Bias in Clinical Medicine
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Short summary
Cognitive biases are a significant, yet poorly understood, source of medical error across clinical practice.
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Key points
- Cognitive bias is a significant source of medical error.
- Bias is widespread across clinical practice.
- Dual process thinking is a potential origin of bias.
- Strategies exist to mitigate the effects of cognitive bias.
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Abstract
Cognitive bias is increasingly recognised as an important source of medical error, and is both ubiquitous across clinical practice yet incompletely understood. This increasing awareness of bias has resulted in a surge in clinical and psychological research in the area and development of various 'debiasing strategies'. This paper describes the potential origins of bias based on 'dual process thinking', discusses and illustrates a number of the important biases that occur in clinical practice, and considers potential strategies that might be used to mitigate their effect.
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